Artist- Writer- Adventurer

Anna is a lively contemporary artist, writer and adventurer who lives on the rim of the English Riviera Geopark. Her visionary storyblogs, podcasts and radio broadcasts challenge, inform and delight.

DREAMINGPLACE:AN IRISH ADVENTURE is her first travel book. Available on Amazon Kindle it is Illustrated with drawings made in situ by Anna and her New Mexican collaborator Claire Coté.

WiLD RADIO PROJECT Wild Radio Project shares the beauty and biodiversity of our natural world with on-line listeners in local homelands around the world.

Wild Radio Project is a platform created by Devon artist Anna Keleher to share wildlife stories, blogs and audio. Featuring Nigel Smallbones and Berry Head National Nature Reserve, English Riviera Geopark.

https://wildradioproject.wordpress.com/

DRAWING AND DREAMING WITH OTHERSAnna uses drawing as an exploratory tool to experience the world. Drawing is a skill that needs practice, dedication and discipline but its also a lot of fun.It´s a bit like wandering in that you never know who you´ll meet or what you´ll find along the way.

RADIO DREAMING is a 6-part radio adventure that will whisk you off to limestone hills, fragile boglands and honeycombe caves, to encounter an inspirational mythology of voices, sounds, dreams and traditional Irish music. Episodes exploring edible landscapes, wild dreams and myths of the land are sure to spark fresh curiosity leaving you eager to go out and dream your own home places alive.

RADIO DREAMING OFF-GRID - Anna and Claire join the great folk revival as they delve into sustainable living, off-grid justice and home entertainment. Listen in on www.dreamingplace.eu/radio

PLACE-DREAMER POD An endearing micro-caravan towed behind Anna’s little Fiat van, the Pod is a solar-powered listening space and recording booth. Inside the wood and aluminium hull custom made by Diddyvans Teardrop Trailers, is a comfy space to host visitors. Under the rear hatch is a cannily designed storage space displaying props to engage and attract participatory audiences.

Place-dreamer Pod was launched in Spring 2013 at Marble Arch Caves Geopark , Ireland. Find out more about the pod journeys www.dreamingplace.eu/pod

DREAMING PLACE - A 40 day 40 night Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark adventure with collaborator Claire Coté discovering technologies to help dream ourselves and others into place in the places where we work, rest and play. Visit www.dreamingplace.eu

BALLAD OF BERRY HEAD Anna has collaborated with the people of Berry Head National Nature Reserve, in the English Riviera Global Geopark, to create a new film for Berry Head Visitor Centre. A partnership commission with Smooth Space and Torbay Coast and Country Side Trust. www.artatberryhead.co.uk

SNIFFING OUT THE FUTURE - A novel take on the funding crisis in the Arts. Anna colaborates with melissa Waddingham to train her mini-labradoodle Ghyllie as a truffle hound . Together they will go out and discover edible fungi

ANDALUSIAN SOUND JOURNEY - An audio foray into the Natural world and Geology of Sierra Subbeticas Geopark, Cordoba, Spain.

SPEAKING AS ...is a project featuring the non-human voices of the world that challenges the supremacy of our human perspective. In this growing archive of audio/podcasts scientists and other experts are invited to share their knowledge of some of the "things" they work with using a novel technique devised for the purpose.

TALKING WITH THINGS. Life in the English Riviera Geopark is full of adventure and discovery. An experimental investigation into ancient and modern technologies which builds culture with peoples scattered through time and space. Outcomes include story blogs audio, podcasts and images. ( Funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England)

THE EXCHANGE The Exchange inhabits prehistoric settlements across the world. (Bronze Age roundhouses on Dartmoor and in Marble Arch Caves Geopark and a prehistoric native American Pueblo site in New Mexico). After tea and cake participants share objects and ideas from their own lives and cultures with the original inhabitants of the host dwelling.

Which object from your own life would you choose to share with the ancient inhabitants of your own home place?

IF YOU'D LIKE TO.... A fun Interactive audio piece to engage visitors with the cultural and natural ecologies of a specific area, using altered perspectives. Part of " Machine Wilderness" at the international Symposium of Electronic Art and Nature ISEA 2012 's in Albuquerque http://www.isea2012.org/ and THE PASEO, Taos 2014 http://www.paseotaos.org/

ICE-AGE EXPEDITION A time -travel project with real huskies, a sledge and clay effigies. Anna invites the public to meet the huskies, help pack a wooden sled and model clay effigies to share with the Geopark's Ice Age inhabitants.

HOW FAR FROM HOME ARE WE ? Part travelogue, part sonic adventure, this radio saga whisks you over land and sea in search of an answer to this tantalizing question. Becky Beinart, Anna Keleher, Claire Cote and Mark Keleher howfarfromhomearewe.com/broadcasts/

PREHISTORIC FOOD ECOLOGIESAnna Keleher and Claire Cote invite others to excavate a bog pantry, feast on acorn bread and churn butter using the motion of their gait. This project is part of an on-going artistic investigation into how cultures form.

Find out more about Anna’s journeys into Place and experience her collaborative pieces online and live. Look out for her participatory events in the "news" section of this page and on Creative Torbay newsletter.

but .....better still .....go out, have adventures and create new stories in your own home place.

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My News

Anna Keleher and artist Helen Snell have been making Art at The Observatory as part of Helen's SPUD Artist's Residency in the New Forest. "Before I leave we flick through our photo shoot. We have made purple, say...

Anna Keleher's new Kindle travel book- Dreaming Place: An Irish Adventure with Claire Coté (£2.75 or free with Kindle Select) tells the story of two artists – one from England and one from New Mexico – as they set out o...

A flash of a harbour porpoise. “I’ve seen something” someone shouts. You only ever see the dorsal fin. Ahead, fifty to a hundred Manx Shearwaters sit on the water. “Sunlight, boat, photographers. Shutters going...

My Events

West Country Artist Anna Keleher and New Mexican Artist Claire Coté are to show an interactive audio installation in the main exhibition "Machine Wilderness" as part of ISEA12 in New Mexico. MACHINE WILDERNESS at 51...

ISEA 2012-13 Re-envisioning Art, Technology and Nature Symposium + Collaboration West Country Artist Anna Keleher and her New Mexican collaborator Claire Cots have been chosen to show at the prestigious internati...

My film short " The Ballad of Berry Head" will play out in the visitor centre projection room from 21st July through the summer. I was commissioned to make the piece for Smooth Space in partnership with Torbay Coast and...

My Opportunities

I'm feeling lucky as I have created a new job for myself. The best news is I am paying myself for doing it. But before I begin work I have to convince those nice people at the Geopark and at Occombe Farm that I can help ...

The job of an artist is strange and you often don't get paid. But ... it leads you to view the world differently and help others to do so. Its true that you can dream a lot but you also need to work really really hard, b...

My Videos

If You’d Like to….. Albuquerque is a fun audio installation with strong adaptive potentials that prepares us to inhabit imaginative worlds and the lives of other creatures, re- jigging patterns of thought and culture int...

How far from Home are we? Part travelogue, part sonic adventure, this audio saga whisks you over land and sea in search of the answer to this tantalizing question. Contemporary Artists Becky Beinart, Claire Coté an...

Audio extract created for Dartmoor National Park. Autumn 2008 If You’d Like to... Dartmoor by Anna Keleher and Claire Long This audio installation whimsically explores the landscape, flora and fauna, ecology, history an...

My Spaces

West Country Artist Anna Keleher and New Mexican Artist Claire Coté are to show an interactive audio installation in "Machine Wilderness" , ISEA12 in New Mexico MACHINE WILDERNESS at 516 ARTS Albuquerque, ISEA2012...